Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) has received a distressing two-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at GameStop's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

GameStop facts

Headquarters (Founded)

Grapevine, Texas (1994)

Market Cap

$3.08 billion

Industry

Electronics stores

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$9.3 billion

Management

CEO J. Paul Raines (since 2010)

CFO Robert Lloyd (since 2010)

Return on Equity (Average Past 3 Years)

16.7%

Cash/Debt

$181 million / $249 million

Competitors

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN)

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY)

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT)

Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 7% of the 3,265 members who have rated GameStop believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bears include HollywoodDan and Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner (TMFSpiffyPop), both of whom are ranked in the top 10% of our community.

Just last week, HollywoodDan touched on the digital headwinds working against GameStop: "How on earth can they survive people downloading games instantly? They can't. At 3B valuation they have a nice long cliff to drop off. If I shorted stocks in real life, this and [Barnes & Noble] would top my list."

In fact, at 16.7%, GameStop's three-year average return on equity is lower than that of gorilla retail rivals Amazon (25%), Best Buy (23.4%), Wal-Mart (21.3%), and Target (NYSE: TGT) (17.2%).

David Gardner elaborates on the bear case:

With Activision (Nasdaq: ATVI) ending the Guitar Hero franchise, and with the music game genre in steep decline, these kinds of changes hit GameStop harder, as it benefited from add-on hardware purchases. Further, Activision -- the industry leader -- grew its digital revenues by 40% last year. I now have stronger questions about GameStop's viability as a bricks-and-mortar business. So I rate Underperform again.

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